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Question 521166: There are four times as many trumpet players as flute players in the orchestra. If are 70 trumpet and flute players. How many flute players are there? I got stuck with 4x=70
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Question 521531: Tyson handled 150 service calls on his shift yesterday. Of those, 20% resulted in a successful upsell of additional services. If Tyson makes a $6 commission on top of his regular salary for each successful upsell that he makes, how much commission did he make yesterday?
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Question 521700: i need help turning this phrase into a mathematical expression four times a number, subtracted from the sum of the number and three.
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Question 522382: Julia deposits 2o% of her paycheck in her savings account.Then she deposits 60% of the remaining money in her checking account. She deposits $108.24 in her checking account. How much money did she deposit in her savings account?
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Question 522559: Traveling downstream, a boat can go 12 miles in 2 hours. Going upstream, it makes only 2/3 this distance in twice the time. What is the rate of the boat in still water, and what is the rate of the current?
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Question 523186: Please help in solving. Need to see how it is solved.
David has 10 pets. All his pets are either fish or hamsters. He has two more fish than hamsters. How many hamsters does David have?
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Question 523815: There is a hopscotch board. It has alot of squares with different numbers inside of it . The width of the squares is t and the length is ( t-3). What is the area? By the way I am learnig about polynomials in Algebra, so the answer is likely to turn as a polynomial.
Thank you for your help.
-James
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Question 524881: If Denise received a 6 percent raise and is now making $25,550 per year, what was her salary before the raise? Round to the nearest dollar. Thank you in advance
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Question 526277: MY son in working on algebra 1 word problems, they are very hard for him.
Here is one example. The difference of 2 numbers is 8. five times the smaller number equals the greater number. Find the numbers. Please help with this one problem.
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Question 526350: use mathamatical symbols to translate the verbal phrases into algebraic language .
10. one-tenth of W
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Question 526652: How do I translate these word problems into equations?
1. The absolute value of a number is the same as the product of five and the number?
2. The product of two consecutive integers is three more than the larger integer?
Thanks for your help,
Eric
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Question 527301: the product of a number and 50
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Question 527663: can you please help me solve this problem:
Fidel bought a basket of peaches and honeydew melons from a fruit stand.He bought a total of 15 fruits for $28.50.If peaches were $1.25 and honeydew melons were $4.50 each,how many of each fruits did Fidel buy?
thank you.
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Question 528287: how can i traslate "two more than twice 3 is ______"
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Question 531241: �The quotient of a number plus six and that number is the same as five
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Question 531237: Translate the verbal phrase: �The difference between a number and its reciprocal
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Question 532359: how do you translate ( the sum of 8 and three times k equal the difference of 5 times k and 3) into a equation

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Question 534419: Adding together two numbers is 20. Three times the smaller number is equal to two times the larger. Find the two numbers
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Question 534955: how do you slove this problem? I keep getting 500 when the answer in my book says the answer is 20. help?
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Question 535196: James and Vanessa were absent for the day of a test. When they returned and took the test, their scores lowered the average score for the entire class by exactly two points, from 82 to 80. If sixteen students took the test on the original test day, what was James and Vanessa�s average test score?
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Question 536325: find 4 consecutive odd integers such that the sum of the second and the fourth is 63 more than one fifth of the third.

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Question 537366: Please help! Im stuck on another word problem and cant figure it out.
Pizzazz Publications is having some books printed. The printer charges $800 plus $5 per book. How many books can be printed for $4000?
Please reply!
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Question 537359: I have a hard time with putting word problems into an equation. Can you please help me?
A banana has 85 calories. This is 10 calories less than one eighth of the calories in a banana split. How many calories are in a banana split?
PLEASE HELP.
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Question 538620: the container that holds the water for the football team is 1/2 full. after pouring out 3 gallons of water, it is 1/3 full.how many gallons can the container hold?
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Question 538177: ann has 3 times as many beads as marie, ann gives marie 55 beads, now ann has half as many beads as marie. how many beads are all together?
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Question 540652: University Theatre sold 493 tickets for a play. Tickets cost $23 per adult and $14 per senior citizen. If total receipts were $8270, how many senior citizen tickets were sold?
Can you please show me step by step so i know how to solve it?
Thanks
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Question 540651: A certain aircraft can fly 1280 miles with the wind in 4 hours and travel the same distance against the wind in 8 hours. What is the speed of the wind?
Can you please show me step by step so i know how to do it? thanks
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Question 541836: Al Yazia has 24 meter of fence. she want to make the largest rectangular area possible for her rabbit to play in. What length should make each side of the rabbit pen? (Show all your work and explain how you find the largest area.
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Question 541941: One added to the product of 7 and -10 is what number?
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Question 542923: (1) The quotient of sixteen y divided by twenty-seven equals forty-nine. Write the expression.
(2) For what value of p is 3 (4p-5)= 2 (p-8) ?
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Question 542645: A board is 118cm long. Karen cut it into two pieces, with one piece 4cm longer than the other. Find the length of both pieces.
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Question 544032: several friends from big city high school decide to rent a limo for the prom for $400. at the last minute, 2 more people decided to join the group and this caused the cost per person to decrease by $10. in all, how many people made the trip?

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Question 546125: There are 26 times as many students in Lincoln High School as teachers. When all the teachers and students are seated in the 900-seat school auditorium, only 9 seats are unoccuped. How many students are at Lincoln High?
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Question 546126: At an amusement park you get 5 points for each bull's eye you hit, but you lose 10 points for every miss. After 30 tries, Yolanda lost 90 points. How many bull's eyes did she have?
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Question 546129: Since my unle's farmyard appeared to be overrun with chickens and dogs, I asked him how many of each he had. Being a puzzler a s well as a farmer, my uncle replied that his dogs and chickens had a total of 148 legs and 60 heads. How many chickens does my uncle have?
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Question 547152: The center of a circle is (4, 6), and an endpoint of a diameter is (2, 5). What is the other endpoint of the diameter?
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Question 547344: Mary can paint her apartment in 5 hours. Jim can paint it in 7 hours. If they work together, how long will it take to paint Mary's apartment?
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Question 547365: How would you write this equation Two less than the product of a number and three is equal to five times the difference of a number and 4. Let x= the #.
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Question 547683: the sum of a two digit number is 9. the number is 12 times the tens digit. find the number
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Question 547685: rey can build a doghouse by himself in 3 days. roy can build the same doghouse in 6 days. how long will it take them if they work together?
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Question 547777: one slice of white bread has 9 fewer milligrams of sodium than one slice of wheat bread. How many milligrams of sodium are in a slice of each type of bread if the combined total number in a slice of each is 267 milligrams
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Question 549985: A basket has exactly six eggs in it. Six different people each take one egg. These are typical people and typical chicken eggs. After all 6 eggs have been taken, there is still one egg left in the basket. How could this be? (No one put their egg back in the basket.)

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Question 550769: An acid solution was made by mixing 10 gal. of a 20% acid solution and 5 gal. of a 80% acid solution. What is the concentration of the mixture?
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